Possess What's Yours!

Had to change the title because Amazon my publisher wouldn’t allow it, because in their view I was making an unsubstantiated claim.

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Had to change the title because Amazon my publisher wouldn’t allow it, because in their view I was making an unsubstantiated claim.

However, I am unrestricted among the brethern and sisteren here in SD.

Joshua 14:6–7 ESV

6 Then the people of Judah came to Joshua at Gilgal. And Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the Lord said to Moses the man of God in Kadesh-barnea concerning you and me. 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought him word again as it was in my heart.

Ephesians 1:3 ESV

3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,

Ephesians 1:6 ESV

6 to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

Caleb treasured God’s Word in his heart - he didn’t go by what he saw.

The Inheritance was in Caleb long before Caleb was in the inheritance.

Joshua 14:8–11 NCV

8 The other men who went with me frightened the people, but I fully believed the Lord would allow us to take the land. 9 So that day Moses promised me, ‘The land where you went will become your land, and your children will own it forever. I will give you that land because you fully believed in the Lord, my God.’ 10 “Now then, the Lord has kept his promise. He has kept me alive for forty-five years from the time he said this to Moses during the time we all wandered in the desert. Now here I am, eighty-five years old. 11 I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out, and I am just as ready to fight now as I was then.

What was the source of Caleb’s faith?

Daniel 11:32 NKJV

32 Those who do wickedly against the covenant he shall corrupt with flattery; but the people who know their God shall be strong, and carry out great exploits.

Caleb’s story is less about Caleb and more about the God whom Caleb knew.

He’s the game changer.

He’s the giant slayer.

He’s the faith giver.

He’s the promise keeper.

That’s why Caleb knew deep down in his gut that with the Lord on his side, he couldn’t lose.

Joshua 14:12 NCV

12 So give me the mountain country the Lord promised me that day long ago. Back then you heard that the Anakite people lived there and the cities were large and well protected. But now with the Lord helping me, I will force them out, just as the Lord said.”

Give me this mountain!

Armed with the bulletproof assurance that the Lord was with him, Caleb was unstoppable.

Psalm 18:29 ESV

29 For by you I can run against a troop, and by my God I can leap over a wall.

He ran against troops of warrior giants and took them down.

He overcame the impregnable walls that fortified their cities and conquered them.

All at 85 years old, when his natural strength and vigor were supposed to have run dry.

Jeremiah 30:19 The Message

19 Thanksgivings will pour out of the windows; laughter will spill through the doors. Things will get better and better. Depression days are over. They’ll thrive, they’ll flourish. The days of contempt will be over.

Romans 8:32–39 ESV

32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Joshua 14:13–14 ESV

13 Then Joshua blessed him, and he gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. 14 Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord, the God of Israel.

Discussion Questions

What stood out to you in this message?

What is the importance of knowing personally what God says about you?

What does it mean to be blessed?

What stood out to you about Caleb's life?

What was the source of Caleb's faith?

You have the Lord's help

you’ll find supernatural strength and confidence for the battles of life when you know that the same loyal, dependable, promise-keeping God who was with Caleb is with you too.

You have to go in and possess by faith what God has freely provided by His grace

Matt 8:17 / Romans 5:17 lay ahold of your righteousness because you're going to constantly see evidence to the contrary. 

Important to know what the Lord said

Caleb came or of nowhere-was a slave

He knew His God so the giants were nothing just something in the way of their inheritance like a piece of lint or a bottle cap (Equilizer). 

Know your inheritance (means possession)

Eph 1:3-6 blessed / highly favored

Grace is sufficient (Thayer)

Joshua 14:14 obedience of faith

The Lord is with you on your side

Romans 8 nothing can separate you from the God's love for you. The Love of God in me and for me will overcome any attack of the enemy against my life.